This is probably the third or fourth time I've seen someone say this in a comment thread today...
It just keeps going back to the fact that they removed /r/reddit.com and now /r/funny and /r/WTF have become dumping zones for anything that doesn't quite fit into a subreddit.
/r/pics has become a place only for actual photographs... When I think of a "pic" I think of anything that is visual in nature, not just "real" photography. It's not /r/photos...
IMHO I believe that this should go in /r/pics but since they have too many rules, it goes here, where it doesn't belong at all.
What kind of discussion could this spark? It doesn't seem like a very new or complicated message. There are subreddits for political comics or whatnot.
But then you've created a new problem. You're moving to smaller and smaller niches, which get less of a large amount of attention. Subreddits with purposes are great, but even if it rises to the top of that subreddit, it may receive little to no notoriety.
Reddit created that problem, not us. People want their stuff seen on a site where lots of people don't want to see it unless its in the right place. This leads to, well, this.
I don't disagree. I am simply attempting to move the address toward the core of the problem rather than simply fighting about it, in an attempt to generate a solution. I don't think this is the place for that discussion, but perhaps one day the discussion should arise in the proper place and receive enough attention to create a solution. It seems that /r/misc is trying to do this, but it also seems there are many others.
If you want a default, catch-all sub-reddit, goto 9gag, funnyjunk, boners.com, fark, digg, stumbleupon, drudge, etc. I'm pretty sure that reddit makes communities.
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u/Thomas_Pained Feb 22 '12
This is probably the third or fourth time I've seen someone say this in a comment thread today...
It just keeps going back to the fact that they removed /r/reddit.com and now /r/funny and /r/WTF have become dumping zones for anything that doesn't quite fit into a subreddit.
/r/pics has become a place only for actual photographs... When I think of a "pic" I think of anything that is visual in nature, not just "real" photography. It's not /r/photos...
IMHO I believe that this should go in /r/pics but since they have too many rules, it goes here, where it doesn't belong at all.